Research

Working Papers/Work in Progress

Wais, Alex. Voters Engage When Democracy Delivers: CDD’s Impact on Ballot Spoiling in Brazil (Revise and Resubmit at Political Research Quarterly)

Wais, Alex. Can Government Spending Loosen the Ethnic Voting Trap? Evidence from 100,000 Voters (Under Review)

Wais, Alex. Does Government Spending in Young Democracies Inspire Democratic Support?

Wais, Alex, Lisa Dellmuth, and Tanushree Rao. Foreign Aid and Trust in Government: How Positive Aid Shocks Erode Trust

Wais, Alex and Lisa Dellmuth. The Paradox of the Wealthy: Does Local Decline Undermine Trust in Global Economic Governance? (with Lisa Dellmuth)

Dellmuth, Lisa, Alex Wais, and Miriam Zehnter. Elite Scapegoating of IOs and Attitudes towards Cooperative Internationalism (with Lisa Dellmuth and 

Wais, Alex. Can Aspiring Autocrats Delegitimize Democratic Guardrails?

Wais, Alex. Do Populist Leaders Undermine Public Trust in International Organizations

Contact

Government

Department

UT Austin

alexwais@utexas.edu